theMightyRegeya:JackieRabbit: Okay, it's official. The Japanese have way too much time on their hands.

You know, they might be doing this instead of watching TV or playing games...

/or being snarky on Fark...

Obviously, you haven't been paying attention to Japan's increasingly bizarre culture. This is, as someone else mentioned, is an extreme form of origami, but it does evidence how they waste their many talents on crap any more.

rocky_howard:theMightyRegeya: JackieRabbit: Okay, it's official. The Japanese have way too much time on their hands.

You know, they might be doing this instead of watching TV or playing games...

/or being snarky on Fark...

You know Japan plays videogames more than anywhere else in the world, right?

i want a source on that, because I've heard of two Koreans dying from playing video games non stop, on Wow and Xbox, I was always getting my ass handed to me by Koreans, not Japanese. So yeah I'm pretty sure South Korea play a lot more video games then Japan.

tjsands1118:i want a source on that, because I've heard of two Koreans dying from playing video games non stop, on Wow and Xbox, I was always getting my ass handed to me by Koreans, not Japanese. So yeah I'm pretty sure South Korea play a lot more video games then Japan.

Hypocrisy, how does it work?

You're getting your ass handed to you in which games? Starcraft? That's like Korean national sport, lol.And people die from too much gaming all over East Asia, not just Korea. I've heard more stories from China/HK than Korea.

Anyway, if you really doubt how much videogames Japanese people play then you're not someone who actually knows about these things. Videogaming is entrenched in Japanese culture for almost everybody, not just the "gamer" type like it is in the States or probably Korea.

And even if Korea is the #1 place, you're still missing the point: Japan plays more than USA.

tjsands1118:Yomoxu: AverageAmericanGuy: Still trying to understand what the headline was supposed to imply.

Same here. Was worried for a bit that I was the only one.

Yes subby, WTF did you mean? How are national symbols racist? It's like if a white guy in the US made a Mickey Mouse or a Bugs Bunny, It's not freaking racist it's just cultural.

Yep. Please explain the "Oh, I get it" part. Is that some, "screwy Japs, always finding some way to fetishize everything with their complicated tea rituals and paper foldings and kits and extreme weapons laws that resulted in the whole Samurai thing or the geisha or the soiled panty vending machines or the tiny little sleeping boxes or all the stuff with the tentacles and how come when anything really odd is happening you can explain the whole thing by simply saying, 'It's Japan, what did you expect' since they're isolated on their little island and they love the tiny things 'cause they're small and live on a tiny island and oh screaming about Godzilla and oh, isn't it funny that they've developed a whole art form around making trees tiny like their tiny island or their small bodies or their little cars and tiny electronics and miniature submarines that snuck into our ports and all the rituals with the bowing and the CEO hanging himself in the fancy hotel suite instead of just declaring bankruptcy and going on TV like the Donald Trump, even their suicide is complicated and how come they're so fussy about everything with the complicated fish snacks and can't you just eat it, does it have to become a hyper-refined art-form too?"

See, when I read the headline I just saw the word "recycle" and I assumed the article was about Japanese recycling bins having these characters on them. I figured the Charmander bin was for burnable trash, get it? Then I read the article, read these comments, and re-read the headline, and now I'm as confused as everyone else. Please explain, subby. Please.

glassbottomboatcaptain:SomeTexan: Loadmaster: What's with the asian obsession with dragons? There is no such animal.

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So to clarify, your retort is the fact that english people gave the english word 'dragon' to a subset of reptiles means that the mythical creature in question actually exists?

Loadmaster:What's with the asian obsession with dragons? There is no such animal.

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Wow, I don't know which one of you two is dumber.

1.- Do you think Japanese are obsessed with the word "dragon" itself as if Englishmen were the ones who created the concept? They have their own word for that: Ryu (as in Shoryuken = Rising Dragon Punch), which is a derivative of the Chinese, Long (as in Sheng Long = Rising Dragon). Not to mention their dragons are very different and more alike to real life dragons which they have used the name for since centuries. Or do you really think it was Englishmen who went there, saw the reptiles and said "yeah, dragons" as opposed to just translating the name?

2.- The West is almost as obsessed with Dragons as the East, so it's not like there's something wrong with them. Dragons are at the top of our myths as creatures of great power and importance. They're usually at the center of fantasy/medieval stories.